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Topic: Environment

5.25.2006 "Work in Progress" -- Helping the Homeless Help Themselves.
5.19.2006 Create an optional federal tax donation to "Beautify Washington, DC"
5.08.2006 Lower rush hour traffic, limit noise and air pollution, improve quality of life
5.05.2006 alternative energy sources for new buildings
5.05.2006 Signs to change recycle and regular garbage bins to suit weekly needs.
5.05.2006 Bringing back the idea of curb space plantings
5.05.2006 Take advantage of our riverfront
5.05.2006 USE THE ROOFS! Reduce inequalities, feed people in need, clean streams and rivers, make D.C. more comfortable to live.
5.05.2006 LET'S SAVE HUNDREDS OF OLD HEALTHY DC TREES EACH YEAR
5.05.2006 Quieter School Buildings: Sound-Absorbing Walls
5.05.2006 Back to Basics for Noise and Trash Enforcement
5.05.2006 Make DC Beautiful at Night
5.05.2006 Paint, mow, plant, and illuminate -- a simple plan to beautify Washington
5.05.2006 Promoting anti-litter behavior through experiential learning in school
5.05.2006 A Cleaner DC
5.05.2006 Make the District less congested by declaring it "No Car" day once a month.
5.05.2006 SAVE AND RESTORE McMILLAN SAND FILTRATION SITE
5.05.2006 Pedestrian, Exercise & Diet Friendly Neighborhoods
5.05.2006 Fine noise makers
5.05.2006 DC Metro is Recycling for Change
5.05.2006 Reduce litter in DC
5.05.2006 Greenroofs
5.05.2006 To provide opportunity for our children, the next generation of DC citizens, we plan to build a Playground Garden at Peabody School.
5.04.2006 GREEN DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX
5.04.2006 Make D.C. a Recycling Classroom
5.04.2006 Network and Sustainability
5.04.2006 Make Better Use of Our Parks!
5.04.2006 Geren DC Year Round 24/7
5.04.2006 Reduce traffic congestion and pollution and save gas by synchronizing the lights on more streets and correcting lights at intersections where they cause obstruction.
5.03.2006 Taxing Motorists to Fund Alternative Sources of Transportation and Programs to Improve the Quality of Motorist Transportation
5.03.2006 Annual Throw Back Day
5.03.2006 Metro Save Electricity
5.03.2006 Make The Old Cenvention Ceneter Site a Muti-Purpose Cummuntity
5.03.2006 Enhancing Civic Engagement in Children and Youth: Save Our Park! -- a book for children aged 5 to 8 years.
5.03.2006 Street lights should illuminate the sidewalks as well as the streets.
5.03.2006 Know It, Fix It, Make It Look Good!
5.03.2006 Pay for your Trash, Recycle for Free
5.03.2006 Bottle Bill
5.03.2006 Develop Pedestrian Path around McMillan Reservoir Now (without waiting on plans for the Sand Filtration Site)
5.03.2006 Keep our Capital City Clean
5.03.2006 Reduce Rats with evening trash collection
5.03.2006 Blueprint for a Better Region
5.03.2006 Rock Creek Park
5.02.2006 GreenDC Year 24/7 Goal: Make GreenDC year round with clean ups in every neighborhood
5.02.2006 New Standard Lampposts
5.02.2006 Encourage Biking to the Natl Arboretum
5.02.2006 Make Dupont Plaza More Accessible
5.02.2006 Car-Free DC
5.02.2006 Community Day Cleanup
5.02.2006 The Anacostia River Crossing @ South Capitol Street
5.02.2006 Pimp My Street
5.02.2006 Livable and Drivable Communities Project: Suburban Loading Docks
5.01.2006 Increase public space over underpasses like Dupont Circle
5.01.2006 Make DC a Greener City: Enhance the Metrobus with Priority Lanes and Signals!
5.01.2006 Community Plant Exchange: Sharing Excess Plants and Flowers
4.28.2006 Transforming DC from Car Culture to Bike Culture would help fix parking, air pollution, rising fuel costs, traffic congestion and a physically unfit citizenry
4.27.2006 DC Has Only One First-Order Problem: Poor Adults
4.27.2006 Ugly political street signs be gone!
4.27.2006 At Last, A Good Use For Automated Phone Technology - A Phone Call Can Prevent Pollution
4.27.2006 Free up congested streets by eliminating excessive metrobus stops
4.26.2006 Require Recycling in DC (and area) Schools
4.25.2006 Our Kids Need Nature/We've Got It! - Survivor: Anacostia
4.25.2006 Why all Wards should recieve same Department of Public Work services.
4.25.2006 "Green" DC Public Schools Would Improve Children's Health
4.24.2006 Let's get cars off the road ASAP by encouraging residents and others to use motorcycles and scooters to get into the city.
4.24.2006 Washington Gets WREAL* *Walkers and Runners Engaged Against Litter
4.24.2006 Congestion charging for a liveable city
4.24.2006 Limit truck deliveries to non-rush hours, easing traffic and pollution while also making the streets safer.
4.23.2006 Require Organizations that use Lamp Post Banner to Pay a Fee Comparable to Other Forms of Street Advertising.
4.23.2006 DC's current residential recycling program falls short of its potential.
4.23.2006 A Flower Pot on Every Corner
4.22.2006 Pic' the trash creators!! The city streets are littered with trash. Solicit pictures and footage of the offending trash creators and publicize the footage.
4.21.2006 Bring back the Trolly!
4.21.2006 Eliminate Litter - "Pick up 3 on the 3rd"
4.21.2006 Solar Micropowerstaions
4.21.2006 say goodbye to noise pollution/excessive car horn use...one ticket at a time.
4.20.2006 Saving Energy through the use of Wind Turbines
4.20.2006 Cleaner City
4.20.2006 The Capitol Clean-Up Project (CCUP) -- Where Healthy Streets Make Healthy Living
4.20.2006 Further Driving the Idea of Taxation without Representation
4.20.2006 Suspend street cleaning parking rules on code red/orange air quality days.
4.20.2006 Solving DC's Problems: A Five-Pronged Approach
4.20.2006 Allow buildings to exceed present height limits if they meet "Green" building standards.
4.19.2006 DC Regatta
4.19.2006 Make the Anacostia more exciting with an annual fishing tournament
4.19.2006 Working Together For The Common Good of All Men
4.18.2006 NO Turn on RED signs at Intersection
4.18.2006 Citizen's Technical Committee
4.18.2006 Celebrate!
4.18.2006 Trash breeds Crime
4.18.2006 A Simpler Solution - "Improvement Day"
4.14.2006 Department of Parks and Recreation.
4.14.2006 Department of Sanitation
4.14.2006 Stop unsightly and dangerous beverage container litter before it starts by providing a 5 or 10-cent incentive to recycle and a disincentive to litter
4.12.2006 Let's set a positive example for the nation by placing recycling bins on our downtown streets, the Mall, and other high-traffic areas.
4.12.2006 Clean Air Compliance Fee Reduces Congestion and Pollution While Raising Funds for Transit
4.10.2006 Billions of Bridges
4.10.2006 Motivate residents to treat the appearance of the District as a personal issue
4.10.2006 Beautifying the D.C. area and increasing community participation through an art competition to design new manhole covers in the D.C. area
4.10.2006 Make Meridian Hill Park a Showcase
4.10.2006 Own the problem--Be the solution!
4.08.2006 A Good Plan for the City, Clean and Simple.
4.08.2006 Rewrite the DC Income Tax Code to give credits for responsible urban choices
4.07.2006 Clean Up DC
4.07.2006 Establish Large-Scale Study & Planning Exercise on Climatic Sea-Level Rise and Regional Impact Negation
4.07.2006 Taking Recycling to the Streets of DC!
4.06.2006 Reducing Neighborhood Trash
4.06.2006 Cleaner DC
4.05.2006 Ban cars in downtown DC
4.05.2006 Recycling in Metro stations
4.05.2006 Develop Federal Rooftops for NGOs
4.05.2006 Greener DC today, for Cleaner Air tomorrow
4.05.2006 Create a beatiful city park on the site of the old convention center!
4.04.2006 RFK Stadium Youth Athletic Complex
4.04.2006 Rebuild the Schools: Architect Contest
4.04.2006 Beautify the City
4.03.2006 Private landscaping and maintenance of public spaces in exchange for advertising.
4.01.2006 Snack Tax
4.01.2006 bike lanes throughout the city
3.30.2006 Odd jobs in the community and cash for the homeless
3.30.2006 Cover RFK Stadium and Convert it into a Clean Green High Tech Industrial Park for 21st Century Sustainable Manufacturing Industries: "The Anacostia Industrium"
3.30.2006 To place doors on the metro.
3.30.2006 Require District Power Plants to Burn All Municipal Solid Waste & Sewage Sludge Made in DC as Green Fuels & Reduce PEPCO Bills by Net
3.30.2006 Pride of D.C. Street Cleanup Day
3.30.2006 Washington DC Recycles
3.29.2006 DC is a trashy place because we throw litter around for someone else to pick up
 

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